Great Britain's memorial against the pretender and popery

GREAT-BRITAIN'S

MEMORIAL

AGAINST

The Pretende

r

AND

POPERY.

Hi quoque qui nomen de relligione fuperlum
Ufurpant, quanquatn fanfiis a patribus ortos
Sejaflent, cvium molli fub seller e fraudes
Merit e Lycaonias fervant, et /anguine for dent.
Quod ffedcm virtutis babet, fcelus omne colorat.

LONDON:

Printed in the Year 1745.

ACfff. irtsr.cs.

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Great-Britain s Memorial,

AGAIN ST

The PRETENDER and POPERY.

Dear Countrymen^ Fellow Brotejlants,
and ChriftianS)

AS thefe Kingdoms are now invaded by the. Pre-
tender's eldeft Son, for the fettling his Father
on the Throne, let me conjure you by all that
is facred and dear to you, ferioufly to confider what
will be the Coniequence, if this Invafion mould be-
come fuccefsful, and the Pretender mould be fuffered to
eftablifh himfelf in the Government, and become your
King.

You cannot forget that he is, or would -be thought,
the Son of that unhappy Prince, King James II.
claims the Crown from him, as his Property, by here-
ditary and indefeaftble Right, hath from his Infancy
been bred up in the Popifi? Religion, hath never fo much
as pretended himfelf to be a Protefiant, and hath for
many Years lived at Rome, the Seat of Idolatry and
Tyranny, under the Protection of the Pope himfelf,
and been maintained in Part by his Bounty ; and who
muft therefore, in Gratitude as well as Principle, be
ready to oblige and fubmit to the Orders and Decrees
of the Pope, and efpecially thofe for promoting and
• eikblifhing the Popifi? Religion.

If therefore the Pretender be admitted to the Pofief-
fion of thefe Kingdoms, he will come a determined
I Papifi, and with a natural fxcd Hatred to our Reli-
gion and Liberties. If he prevails by Force and Con-
Jjueit, as he is now attempting to do, the fame Power
, that brings him in, will be employed for the certain
ana immiaiate Defiruction of both, and keptfup for his
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own Security, and to £nifh and perpetuate our Mifery
and Ruin.

What are the Inftntmcnis employed by the Invader
to accomplish his Dcfign of Conowft on thefe King-
doms ? Are they not Scotch Highlanders, nvild and un-
cultivated Banditti ; all bred up in Popifh Principles,
and prepared by Nature and Education, and Religion,
to commit all Sorts of Outrages upon your Peribns,
Families, and Eflates ? Have they not, fince their In-
surrection in Favour of the Pretender, plundered and
robbed Cities, Towns, and Villages, Noblemens Pa-
laces, and Gentlemens Houfes, of Money, Goods,
.Arms, Horfes, Corn, and whatever they could lay
their Hands on ; murthered many in the Wantonnefs
of their Infolence, even in cool Blood, and committed
Rapes on the Wives and Daughters of others, with-
out Fear and Punifhment?

Who are the Friends, Allies, and Confederates of this
Pretender to the Crown and Kingdom ?The Pope gives
him Us foltmn BenediSlion, as an obedient Son of his
'Church. The French and Spaniards, who hate us, as
F.nglijhmen and Proteftants,<u>/>£ a mortal Hatred, have
fupplied him with Money, Arms and Ammunition
with Officers and Men, and have been the principal In-
4\ ruments in fcheming, beginning, and carrying on thi
Expedition againft us ; without whofe Orders the Strip-
kng that heads it durft not have made it, and without
whofe Aid and Afliftance he could not.

But what have we not to fear zsEngliJhmen and Pro
teftants, if conquer'd by Frenchmen and Spaniards ; al
torn and bred Slaves, perfidious, bigotted cruel Papifts
and who by the moft execrable Methods have laBour'c
the Extirpation of the Proteflant Religion out of thei;
refpective Countries ; who long to have the Pleafun
of extirpating it out of ours, and would fport them-
felves with our Miferies, and fee us, as Hereticks, dy
ing under the moft dreadful Tortures, with infinite Sa-
tisfaction and Delight ?

If you mould be prevailed on to admit him in a mor<
peaceable Way , which now is impoflible, all the For
ces of the Kingdom being prepared to oppofe him

againft the Pretender and Popery.

yet if you mould admit him upon Terms, what Security
can he give you for your Religion and Liberties ? Sup^
poling he makes you the moft folctnn Promifs, and con-
firms them by a thoufand Oaths ; as a Papift 'tis not fo
much as in his Power to perform them : No, not tho'
he may have a real Intention to do it, and be in himfeif
a Perion of great natural Honour, Companion, and
Humanity, and in his own Judgment inclined to For-
bearance and Toleration. Becaufe bis Judgment and
Conference is futyeel, by his Religion, to the Determi-
nations of his Church, and that Church hath fokmrjy
condemned all Toleration of Hereticks.

We have had two very remarkable Inltances amongft
ourfelves, what Kind of Regard Popifti Princes pay to
their Promifes and Oaths. Queen Mary promifed the
Prpteftants of Suffolk and Norfolk, thztjhc would leave
Religion in the State in which 'twa&- fettled by King
Edward VI. as Jhe found it ; . referring only to herfelf
the Liberty of 'prof effing her own. And when they put
her afterwards in mind of this Promife, fhe rejected
their Petition with great Haughtinefs, and told them,
Subjects were not to controui the Aclions of their. Sow-
eign ; and one of their Number was pillory* d, for be-
ing too free in his Remembrance. And though fhe after-
wards declared in Council, that jhe would uf noTorct upon
Confcunce in Affairs of Religion, yet fhe ibon imprifaned
the Proteflant Biihops, reconciled (as 'twas called) her
Kingdoms to the Pope, and revived all the Statutes of
Deitru&ion and Murther againft herProteftant Sub-
jects.

When King James IL came to the Crown, he de-
clared to his Privy -Council, that he would make it his
Endeavour to prcferve the Government both in Church
and State, as it was then by Law eft ah lified, a?:d always
take care to defend and fupport the Church of England,
He afterwards confirmed this Declaration to his firft
Parliament, and renewed it again upon Monmouth's
Invafion. And yet throughout his fhort Reign he in-
variably purfued thefe two Projects, fhe cjlablifhvig
an arbitrary Government, and the Deftruclion of the
Rroteftant Religion \ and that with a Fury that had no
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Prudence to guide it, and which, under Providence, wets
one Mean to difappoint and- deftroy his own Defign.

And in thefe Things thefe two Princes acted in the
true Character of Papifls, and as obedient Children to
their holy Mother, the Church of Rome : For I will
now fhew you, from the nrft authentick Evidence ', and
fuch as no Papift fhall be able to deny,. viz. from their
own Collection of Canon Laws, publifhed by Order of
Pope Gregory XIII. which he forbids all Addition to,
Alteration and Perveriion of, commands to he kept
perpetually intire and uncorrupt, and recommends to
the Faithful as a Means to keep them in the right Ca-
tholick Faith : I fay from hence, and the Decrees of
their own approved Councils, I will prove,

Eirft, That the moil facred Laws of the Church of
Rome oblige all Kings and Princes to exterminate, by
all Manner of Methods, their Heretical Subjects, even
though they have bound themfelves by Oath to the
■contrary; and then fhew,

Secondly, That this hath been their conftant Practice
wherever they have had Opportunity and Power.

Firft I amto demonitrate, that the moji facred Laws
of the Church of Rome oblige all Kings, Princes and
States, to exterminate, by all Manner of Methods,
their Heretical Subjects. Here I would have you,
Fellow-Proteftants, obferve, that Herefy, in the Judge-
ment of the Church- of Rome, is every Thing that is
contrary to the Doclrine taught by the Pope, or the
Romi/h Church. For this Reafon that Church is diftin-
guifhed by the Name of the Roman Catholick, becaufe
the Roman Pope is the Head of it, and his Decrees in
Religion are looked on, and fubmitted to, as abfolutely
infallible, and no more to be difpenfedwith and contra-
dicted, than the Decifions of the impired Apoftles
themfelves. For,
Decretal l . Pope Agatho ordained : All the Sanelions of the

E-m. VIII,. Apoftolick Bee are to he received, as though confirmed

D^.19. C. Z. ^ ^ p,^ qj ^ dicvine perer tfafifi

Utile,*, 2. Pope Stephen ordained: Since the Holy Ro-

man Church h propefd as a Looking-glnfs cr Ex-
emplar;

agninfl the Pretender and Papery. 5

emtlar; whatever that appoints , whatever it ordains,
is perpetually and without Contradiction to-
he obfrvsd by all.

3. Pope- Gclafius ordained: The Holy P.oman pjd. Dtfinc,
Catholick and Apoflolick Church is exalted above 21.^3.
all ether Churches by the Evangelical Voice of our herd

and Saviour. Thtrefcre the Roman Church, the See
of the Jpcfle Peter, is the Chief r not having Spot and
Wrinkle cr any fueh thing.

4. Pope Boniface ordained : u If the Pope, negli- Ibid. Diflirc,

* gent of his own and his Brothers Salvation, be^0*** 6'

* found unprofitable and remifs in his Duty, and fo

* filent as to what is good, as that he be hurtful to

* himfelf and all others,' and draws with him innumer-
able People by Troops in Slavery to Hell, there to be beaten
with him with many Stripes to all Eternity : ' Let no

* mortal Man prefume to reprove his Faults, becauie

* he who is to judge all, is to be judged by no one.

5. Pope 'Nicholas I . decreed: Whefoevir endeavours j/va\ Difthc,
to take away the Privilege delivered to the Roman 22. ex.
Churchy by him who is the Chief Head of all the
Churches , this Per fen undoubtedly falls into. Herejy ; for

he violates the Faith, who a els in any thing againjl her
who is the Mother of the Faith.

The Penalties me hath ordained for the Punishment
of Herefy are thefe.

• Excommunication.

1 . Adrian, the Pope, decreed : We ordain by a ge- Decret. z.
neral Decree,That V/bcfoevarvfthe Kings, or Bijbops, or Pari* Cauf*
great Men /ball ' believe or permit that the Cenfure of the *5' ^afi9
Decrees of the Reman Pontifs, may be, crbe in any thing vio -

fated, /hall be an execrable Anathema, and as aPre-
varicatcr in the Catholick Faith, be always guilty before
God.

2. Pope Nicola us decreed, presiding in an univerfal Ibid. Can/.
Synod of Rome r If any one [ball contemn the Opinions, 26* ®&*P*
Commands, Prohibit: cr.s or D erees v:holfcmely publijhed

by the Prelate of the Afoftolick See, concerning the Dif-
cipline of the Catholick Faith, for the Correction of the
Faithful, for the Amendment of the Wicked, or for the
Prevention of imminent or future Evil, . let him be-AwA-
thema, 3. Pope

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Decret. Greg. 3 Pope Honorius III. We excommunicate all Here-
I. 5. Tit. 39. ticks of either Sex, of ivbatfotvcr Name, together vuith
*• 49« their Favour, rs, Revivers and Defenders.

7. Decret. 4- Pope Paul IV. ' Upon mature Deliberation

/. $. Tu. 3. * had with our venerable Brethren, the Cardinals
*♦ 9« * of the Holy Roman Church,and with their unanimous

' Confent, we do, by our Apoftolick Authority,'
" approve, renew, will and decree to be in ever frefh
" Vigour and Observance, all and lingular Sentences,
<( Cenfures and Penalties, of Excommunication, Suf-
" penfion, Interdict and Deprivation, or any others,
" laid by any of the Roman Pontifs, our PredecefTors,.
" or who were efteemediuch, tjfe. againft Hereticks or
*' Schifmaticks. And moreover we Will and Decree,.
" That whofoever mall be found, or confefs, or be
" convicted to have deviated from the Catholick Faith,
** or have fallen into any Herefy, or to have incurred
" or excited any Schifm, or who hereafter fhall thus
" deviate,. &c or confefs, or be convicted thus to have.
" deviated, tjfe. of whatfoever State, Degree, Or-
" der, Condition or Preheminence they may be, tho1
** they may ihine with the Epifcopal, Archiepifco-
l* pal, Patriarchal, Primatial, or any greater Eccle-
" naitical Dignity t or with the Honour of the Car-
" dinalate, or the Office of Apoftolic Legate, per-
M petual or temporary, wherever it be ; or with any
" worldly Honour, even of Count, Baron, Marquis
" and Duke, or with the Royal and Imperial Au-
" thority and Excellence, every fuch Perfon fhall in-
* cur theforefaid Sentences, Cenfures and Penalties.

Being thus excommunicated, Hereticks, with their
Receivers and Favourers, are expofed to the moil cer-
tain, exemplary, universal- and unalterable Deflruc-
tion.

Pope Pelagius ordains : Ejieem it no Sin to op-

prefs fuch Men, viz. vjho contemn the Apoftolick See.

Buret. 2.

Pan. Cauf.

5?f. 47 44. f°r this 2S enjoined by divine and human Laws, that

fuch as are divided from the Unity of the Church, and

voickedly difturb its Peace, Jhouid be fupprefjed by the

fecular Povjers ; nor can you offer a nobler Sacrifice to

God, than by refraining fuch with a competent Vigour.

2. Pope*

againfi the Pretender and Popery. 7

2. Pope Gregory ordains: That the Enemies of the jbidt Cauf,
Lord's Church jhculd be eppofid with all Vigour, both of^> %u*P*
Mind and Body, and that Princes ought to fight the ec- 4« *• 4§«
chfuftical Battles valiantly, as the War ricrs of the

Lord, and to fupprefs their Endeavours , and bring their
proud Necks to the Yoke of ReSiitude.

3 . Pope Urban II. decreed : We do not tftecm thofe as Mid, Cauf,
Murderers, who fired with a Zeal for the Catholick *3> Q**fi:
Mother, agcirft Heretic is, may happen to kill any cf 5* f* 47-
thtm.

4. Pope Leo IV. ordained: Laying a fide all Fear jyu, cu^jf,
andTet ror, endeavour to behave manfully againfi the Ene- %. c. 9.
mies of the Holy Faith, and the Advcrfaries of all Re-
ligions. For God h;cws, that if any of you Jhall die

for the Truth of the Faith, and the Defence ofChrifiia?:*,
he Jhall obtain the heavenly Reward.

c< Paul IV. ordained: " That all and Angular 7. Decnu

" Bifhops, Archbifliops, Patriarchs, Primates, Cardi- /. 5* ?fo 3*

*' nals, Legates, Earls, Barons, Marquifes, Dukes, '• 9'

** Kings and Emperors, that fall into Herefy or

•« Schifm, and fhall confefs it or be convicted of it,

" ihall not only be excommwiicated, but farther he,

" ipfio faBo, without farther Procefs of Law, alto-

** gether, wholly and perpetually deprived of their

" Orders, Cathedral, Metropolitan, Patriarchal and

" Primatial Churches, the Honour of the Cardinalate,.

" the Office of Legate in every Sort, their a&ive

** and pailive Vote, and all Authority, their Mona-

u fteries, Benefices, and Eccleiiaftical Offices, with

" Cure or without it, fecular or regular of every

" Order, of all Fruits, Returns and Incomes, and

" of their Earldoms, Baronies, Marquifates, Duke-

" doms, Kingdoms, and Empires; and fhall.be'

" deemed ever after unfit for them, and incapable of «*

" them, and fhall be looked on as relapfed and fub -

" verted to all Intents and Purpofes, as though

" they had before judicially and publickly abjured

" fuch Herefy, nor fhall they ever after be reftored

*' to their former State, but fhall moreover be left to

" the fecular Power to be punifhed with due Animad-

" verfion, unlefs- they give proper Signs of Penitence

. Decret.

5. ut. :

C. I.

Damnabili
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" and then, thro' the Benignity and Clemency of the
" Holy See", they fhall be allowed to be thrufi into fom<
*' Monaiiery, or other fit Place, there to do perpe-
" tual Penance with the Bread and Water of Affliction
" and as fuch let them be avoided by all Perfons 0:
** every State andCondition whatfoever, and become
c* deflitute of every kind of Comfort that Humanity
" itielf can afford them.

6. The Emperor Frederick IT. published a moil
dreadfully fevere Decree againft all Hereticks, ordain-
ing that Hereticks, ' under whacfoever Name they
' may be ranked, and wherefoever, throughout the
' Empire they mould be condemned by the Church,

* fhould be afiigned over to the fecular Power, and
6 punifhed with due Animadverfion ; that, if through
<■ fear they returned to the Faith, they mould do Pe>
' nance perpetually in Jail, that all ;fhould be obliged to
'apprehend them at the Order of the Inquifitors, and
' detain them in Jail, till being condemned by the eccle-
c fi aftical Cenfui e> they fhould be deftroyedby a damnable
4 Death. He ordered alfo to be punifhed in the feme
s Manner, all their Advocates and Defenders. ' j£e
' removed from them all Benefit of Proclamation

* and Appeal, being willing that every Sprout -of

* heretical Pravity fhould by all Manner of Ways be
'- exterminated from the Bounds of the Empire. He de-
' prived alfo the Heirs and Poflerity of Hereticks,
4 their Favourers and Advocates, to the fecond Ge-
6 neration, of all temporal Benefices, and publick
' Offices and Honours. He farther excited Children
e to accufe their Parents, by promifing them Immu-
' nity from thefe Penalties.' This bloody Conftitution
Pope Innocent IV. inferted intire into one of his own
Bulls, and. ordained that it fhould be obferved, and
that the Procefies againft Herefy fhould be carried on
according to the Tenor of it.

7. It fhould be farther obferved, that the Inquisi-
tion, whofe peculiar Office it is to extirpate Hereticks,
and punim them with Tortures and Death, and which
prevails in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, was erected by
the Popes, confirmed by their Authority, the Inqui-

fitor*

againji the Pretender and Popery.

frtors named by them, and independently even on
their Kings and Princes, receive and exerciie their Au-
thority and Power from them.

8. And this Authority of the Popes hath been con-
firmed by many Popifh Councils, and efpecialfy by
what they call their lait general Council, that i t
K'ho in their 25 th Seflion ordain : That all andfmgulcr
Matters , relating to the Reformation of Manners and
ft . if teal Dijciplbie, that have been decreed l-\
Council, Jhall be, and under food to be fo decreed, as al-
ways to preferwfafe the Authority of the Apojiolick See.
[n their Acclamations at breaking up of the Council,
:hey itiled the then Pope, Pius IV. the mofi bleffed
Dope, our Lord, and Pontiff of the holy uwucrfal
Church; and in the fame 2 5thSeflion, Dec. 4. they de-
Tee, that all Pafiors, as good Soldiers, jhculd commend
fo all the Faithful, all thqfe Things, which the Holy
^oman Church, the Mother andMiftrefs of all Churches,
hould ordain. In the fame Seflion, un4er the Decree
>f Reformation, they decree and ordain, that the fa-
red Canons, all the general Councils, and all other apo-
lolical Sanctions, in. favour of ccclefiafical Perfons, cc-
kfiajlical Liberty, and publijhed againji the Violaters
ereof, nvhicb they renew by this very Decree, fhould be
xaclly ohjerved by all. By this Decree they gave a
an&ion to all the tyrannical Claims and perfecting
lulls of the preceding Popes.

Juft before this Council hroke up, which, th rough -
ut every Seflion, had played every thing into the
lands of the Popes, they piouily cried out : Davma-
on to all Hereticks, Damnation, Damnation ; and or-
ered all Ecclefiafticks to obferve all that the Synod had
\ creed, to promife and profefs true Obedience to the chief
* on tiff' of Rome, and pub lick ly to dcttft and a?iathcma-
'fe all Herefies, under Pain of being punijhed according
> the f acred Canons. They farther admoniftied the fe-
Lilar Princes of their Duty, to be P rot eel or s of the holy
aith and the Church, and to yield due Obfervance to
\t f acred Confli tut ions of the chief Pontiffs and Coun-
Is, and that they would not permit the ecclefiaftical
&ws to he injured by any Barons, Rulers, Temporal

Lord/

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Lords and Magifiratcs -, hut that they 'would ' anim iJv.rt
fiv*rely on theft v. ho JLould hinder the ec clc fit jHcal Li-
berty, Immunity, or JurifdicJien.

9. 'Tis well known that the Council of Confiance,
held in the fifteenth Century, made this Canon : This
holy Synod declares, that whatever fafe ConduSl he
granted hy the Emperor, Kings^ or other fccular Princes,
to Hcreticks, or Per/ens d famed for Herefy^ J?y what-
ever Bond they foall hind themftlvcs ; no Prejudice fhall
arife or Hindrance he made, or ought to be made, fo as
that, mtwithjlanding the jaid fafe Conducl, it Jhall not
be lawful fcr the proper ecclefiajlical Judge, to make In-
quifition concerning the Errors of fuch Perfons, and other-
wife to proceed regularly againfl them, and to punijh them9
as far as in Juftice they ought, if they ohfiinately refufe
to revoke their Errors ; even although trujiing to fuch
fafe Conducl they xome to .the Place of Judgment, and
otherwife would mot have come. And accordingly John
Hufs, though he had the fafe Conduct of the Empe-
ror Sigifmund, and came to the Council on the Faith
of it, was imprifoned, tried, condemned, and burnt,
in fpite of it, for pretended Herefy.
-Clem. XI. 10. And finally, agreeable to this Decree of the

Efift. et Bre- Council, Pope Clement XL cancels all Promifes and
*!x>a ° * - . Oaths \made in favour ofProtcftants ; declaring them null
gom, z»p. 179. axtt void, whenever they are prejudicial in any Manner to
jhe Catholick Faith, the Salvation of Souls, or to any
Rights of the Church whatfoev, r ; even though fuch En-
gagements have been often ratified and confirmed by Oath,
Secondly,- As this is the Doclrine univerfally of the
Church of Rome, their Praclice hath been, exactly agree-
able to it, and they have never fcrupled to authorize,!
and perpetrate the moft execrable Cruelties on thole I
they call Hereticks, whenever they had it in their I
Power fo to do. Innumerable Inltances might be pro-l
duced. I fhall felect fome few remarkable ones, that|
I defire you will keep in perpetual Remembrance.

1. In the Reign of our Henry IV. the cruel Statutel
Ex Officio was enacted againft the Lollards, by the In -I
ligation of the Popifh Clergy, by which all Hereticksf
convicted by the Ordinary were condemned without

Mercy

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\Aercy to be burned in Sight of all the People, and many
vere executed in Virtue of it.

Upon Queen Mary's coming to the Crown, aU the
anguinary penal Laws againft Hereticks were revived,
md in the Space of live Years and four Months there
vere burnt and roaited, for their Religion, five Bifhops,
me and twenty Divines, eight Gentlemen, eighty -
bur Artificers, one hundred Hufbandmen, Servants,
md Labourers, twenty-fix Wives, twenty Widows,
line Virgins, two Boys, and two Infants. Sixty.- four
nore were perfecuted on the fame Account ; of which
even were whipped, iixteen perifhed in Jail, and
welve were buried in Dunghills. Others affirm, that
n the two flrft Years of the Perfecution, which began
n. 1 555, eight hundred were put to death.

In the next Reign, when the Spaniards invaded
3ueen Elizabeth, by the Inftigation of Pope Innocent
VIII. as King Philip himfelf alledged, with their In-
vincible Armada, what kind of Tragedy they in-
ended to adt amongft us, we learn from the Aniwers
)f Don Pedro, one of their principal Captains, taken cat,a/a
>y Sir Francis Drake; who being afked, what was 372. Letter
he Intent of their invading us, ftoutly anfwered the t0 Menduza,
Lords who examined him : What, but to fubdue the?' *?•
Nation and root it out? And what meant you then,
aid the Lords, to do with the Catholicks ? To fend
hem good Men, fays he, direclly to Heaven, as all you
Hereticks to Hell. Yea, faid the Lords, What meant
'ou to do with the Whips of Cord and Wire, whereof
hey had great Store in their Ships ? To whip, faid he,
)ou Hereticks to death. What would you have done,
aid the Lords, with their young Children ? They, faid
le, who were above /even Tears old, Jhould have gone
he Way their Fathers went, the reft Jhould have lived
n perpetual Bondage, branded in the Forehead with the
better L for Lutheran. Befides this, the Lords of
\pain, that were in the Navy, had divided amongft
hemfelves all the Nobkmens Houfes in England by ■
>Jame, quartered the whole Kingdom amongft one
mother, and had determined on fundry Manners of
juel Deaths, both for the Nobility and the reft of
B 'tie

Account of
the Spanijb
Invafion,
publifhed
An. 1739.
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the People. The Ladies, Women and Maidens, wer<
defined to all Villainy, and the rich Merchants Houfa
in London were put into a Regifter by their very Names^
and affigned to the Companies of the Squadrons o
their Navy, for their Spoil. This Examination was
delivered by the Lord Treafurer Burleigh to the Ear
ofLeicefir, when the Queen was in her Camp, guard-
ed by her Army.

In the next Reign was brought to light, that truly
hellifh Defign of the Gun~P<nvder-Plot, intended to
deftroy, by a fudden Blow, King, Lords,, and Commons
at once, in order to introduce and re-eftabliih Popery.
Garnet, Tcfmond, and Gerrard, three Popifh Priefts,
being confulted whether it was lawful to execute the
Defign, approved of it as jufl, ftnce it was againft ex-
communicated Hereticks. And the Jefuits have ho-
noured Garnet and Oldcorn, two Jefuits, who were
hanged for this Treafon, with the Titles of Saints and
Martyrs.

The Tragedy adled jn Ireland by the Irijh Papift*
on the Protectants, in the Reign of King Charles I.
was one of the bloodieft that was ever contrived and
executed, and ihews with what an infernal Spirit Po-
pery animates thofe, who are under the Power of it.
October 23d, 1 64 1, a Day dedicated to St. Ignatius,
this Maffacre began ,• when forty or fifty thoufand
Englifh Proteftants were murthered, before they fuf-
pe&ed thej&vfelves to be in danger, or could provide
for their Defence ; and in all one hundred and forty
thoufand were deftroy 'd by innumerable Barbarities, and
put to death in cold Blood, by thefe inhuman Popifh
Butchers of Mankind.

2. In France we have many Inftances of the like
Sanguinary Temper of Popery, and of the Cruelties
that have been exercifed merely on Account of Re-
Bxw. An. ligion. In the County ofTholoufe, the Jlbigenfes, who
1x04. §. 22, had feparated from the Church of Rome, were very
numerous,. The Pope fent his Legate to make Inqui-
fition againft them, and wrote to Philip the French
King to ufe all his Force to fupprefs them, and pro-
mifed RemiJ/ion of all Sins to whofoever would take

up

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tip Arms againft them and deftroy them. Raymond
Earl of Tboloufe was excommunicated by the Pope,
and his Country given to whofoever could feize it.
A Crufade or Army of Crofs- Bearers was raifed, who
attacked the Hereticks, took their Cities, filled all
Places with Slaughter and Blood, and burnt many
whom they took Captives. In i 209 Biterre was taken jdAn% l%0^t
by them, and all the Inhabitants, without Regard §. 1.
to Age or Sex, cruelly put to the Sword, and the
City itfelf burnt to the Ground. And though there
were fome goodCatkolicks in it, the Abbot of GfieauxRaynaM,
cried out: Slay them all, for the Lord knows who a™?"^7,0^'
bis. On which the Soldiers flew (hem all without j}* '23,44,
Mercy. Carcajfone alfo was deftroy ed; and Earl
Mofitfort, who was made Govcrhour of the Country,
took feveral Cities, and put to death the captive He-
reticks by the moft horrible Puiufhment*. Within
two or three Months Space, one Robert, an apoftate-
Albigenfis, caufed fifty Perfons, without Diltinclion of
Sex, to be buried alive or burnt. At Paris nine/^^il4xc,
Hereticks were had into a Field, and burnt in the Pre- § 3.
fence of the King. After this the Crofs-Bearers feized
©n Ally, where they put great Numbers to death. Bzw. An.
They took La Vaur by force, and burnt many of the tzil-i' 9>
People. They hanged Aymerick, a Nobleman, Go-
vernor of the City, beheaded eighty of letter Degree,
and threw Girarda, Aymerick* % Sifter, inta a Pit, and
covered her with Stones . Then they conquered Carcum,
where they murthered ftxty Men. They feized on
Pulcra Vallis, a large City, burnt in it 400 Hereticks,
and hanged fifty more. At Ca fires de Termis they put
kaymond Lord of the Place into Jail, where he
died, and burnt in one large Fire, his Wife, Sifter,
and maiden Daughter, with fome other maiden Ladies,,
whom they could not perfuadeby Promises or Threats
to embrace the Roman Faith.

It would be endlefs to mention the particular Num- s/eidan'i
feers burnt, and otherwife deftroyed at Paris, and Hijt. Reform*
other Cities and Towns in France,, for embracing the Llb% 9* ^'
Reformation begun by Luther. One Inftance {hall fuf- 175'
fice. for 'all. In 1534, Francis I. ordered an Inquift-
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tiori to be made at Paris againft the Lutherans, fome
of which were difcovered by Informers, others appre-
hended on Sufpicion, and put to the Torture, and
both Sorts burnt after a very barbarous Manner : For
bring tied to a Pulley they were drawn up a great
Height, then let down into the Fire, prefently after
fnatched up again, and at la ft, the Executioner cuttift;
the Rope, dropped 'into the Flames and ronfumed. Thof
who were thought to be more learned than the reft
had their Tongues cut out, and were then brought to
the Stake and burnt.
Tbum. HiJ}. The Pariftan Maffacre was carried on with fuch
a deteftible Perfidy, and executed with fuch a bloody
Cruelty, as would furpafs all Belief, were it not at
tefted with the moll undeniable Evidence. In th<
Year 1572, in the Reign of Charles IX. many of the
principal Proteftants were invited to Paris, under a
folfi^n Oath of Safety, uponOccafion of the Marriage
of the King of Navarre with the French King's Sifter,
<viz. the King of Navarre's Mother, Coligni Admiral
of France, with other Nobles. The Queen Dowager
of Navarre, a zealous Proteftant, was poifon'd by a
pair of Gloves before the Marriage was folemnized: ;
and on the 24th of Auguft, \ 572, being Bartholomew" *s
Day, about Day-break, upon the Toll of the Bell of the
Church of St. Germain, the Butchery began. The Admiral
was bafely murthered in his own Houfe, drefled only
in his Night-gown, and then thrown down into the
Court out of his Window, to gratify the Malice of the
Duke of Guife, and his Head cut off and fent to the
French King and his Queen Mother, and his Body,
after a thoufand Indignities offered to it, hung up by
the Eeet on a Gibbet. After this the Murthefers ra-
vaged the whole City of Paris, and butchered in three
Days above ten thoufand Lords, Gentlemen,Prefidents,
Counfellors, Advocates, Lawyers, Scholars, Phyficians,
Merchants, Tradefmen, -find others. An horrible
Scene of Things, fays Thuanus, when the very Streets
and PafTages refounded with the Noife of thofe that
met together for Murther and Plunder, the Groans oi

thofe who were dying, and the Shrieks of fuch as were

juft

againft the Pretender and Popery, i

Mft going to be butcher'd, were every where heard,
:he Bodies of the Slain thrown out of the Windows,,
the Courts and Chambers of the Houfes filled with
them, the dead Bodies of others dragged thro' miry
Streets, the Blood running down the Channels of
hem in fuch Plenty, that Torrents of Blood feemed
o empty themfelves into the neighbouring River ;.
md in a Word, an innumerable Multitude of Men,
Women with Child, Maidens and Children, were all
involved in one common Deftru&ion, and the Gates
and Entrances of the King's Palace all befmear'd witlv
their Blood.

From the City of Paris the MafTacre fpread almoin
throughout the whole Kingdom. In .the City of
Meanx they threw above two hundred into Jaily and after
they had killed and ravifhed a great Number of Wo-
men, and plunder'd the Houfes of the Proteftants,
they executed their Fury on thofe they had imprifon'd,
and calling them out one by one, they were killed, as
Thuanus expreftes it, like Sheep by Butchers in a Mar-
ket, and their Bodies- flung partly into Ditches, and
partly into the River Marne. In Orleans they mur-
tbered above 500 Men, Women, and Children, and
enriched themfelves with their SpoiL The fame
Cruelties were praclited at Angers,. TroyrSy Bourgesr
La Chart te, and efpecially at Lyons; where they in*
humanly deftroy'd above 800 Proteftants, Children:
hanging on their Parents. Necks, Parents embracing
their Children ; putting Ropes about the Necks of ibme,
dragging them through the Streets, and throwing
them half dead into the River. It would be eiidiefs to*
mention the Butcheries made at Valence ; Romaine, Thou-
hufe, and Rouen, where above 500 Perfons without
Regard to Sex or Age were deftroy'd, and their Gar-
ments full of Blood given to the Poor. I (hall only
add, that according to Thuanus above 30,000 Pro-
tectants ware deftroy'd in this MafTacre, or as others
with greater Probability affirm, above 1 00,000. Tku- jj;j}t /t ^%
mtus hrmfeif calls this amoft deteftable Villainy, and§. 1*
in Abhorrence of 67. Bartholomews Day, ufed to re-
J>«at tiofe Verfes off. Statius, Sih. 5. 2, <v. 88, &fe.
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Exddat ilia dies avo, ne poftera credant
Secula. Nos certe taceamus, et obruta mult a
Nocle tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis.

In the Words of Joby iii. 3^ &c. Let that Day pe-
rijh, and ht it not he joined unto the Days of the Year.
Let Darknefs and the Shadow of Death ftain it, let a
Cloud dwell upon it, let it look for Light and haw ?ione9
neither let it fee the Dawning of the Day. And yet, as
though this had been the molt heroick Tranfaclion^
and could have procured immortal Glory to the Au-
thors of it, Medals were ftruck at Paris in Honour of
it, on the Face of which was the King fitting on a
Throne with this Infcription, Virtus in Rebelles, Vir-
tue againji Rebels, and on the Reverfer Pietas excitant
Jufti'tiam. Piety hath roufed up J u ft ice.

But how was the News of this Butchery receivad.
at Rome, that faithful City, that Holy Mother of
Churches ? How did the Vicar of Chrift, the SuccerTor
of Peter, and Father of the Chriftian World, relifh it?
Lib. $y §-4* Let Thuanus tell the Story. When the News, fays he,
came to Rome, it was wonderful to fee how they exulted
for Joy. For on the 6th of September, when the Let-
ters of the Pope's Legate were read in the Affombly
of the Cardinals, by which he affured the Pope, that?
all was tranfacled by the exprefs Will and Command
of the King, it was prefently decreed, that the Pope
fhould march with his Cardinals to the Church of St.
Mark, and in the mcjl folemn Manner give Thanks to
God, for fo great a BlefTmg conferred on the See of
Rome, and the Chriftian World ; and that, on the
Monday after, folemn Mafs fhould be celebrated in the
Church of 'Minerva, at which the Pope, Gregory XIII.
and Cardinals were prefent; and that a Jubilee fhould
be publifhed throughout the whole Chriftian World,
and the Caufe of it declared to be, to return Thanks
to God, for the Extirpation of the Enemies of the
Truth and Church in Fra?ice. In the Evening the
Canon of St. Angelo were fired, to teftify the publick
Joy, the whole City illuminated wtfh Bonfires, and

no

againft the Pretender and Popery. . 17

IK) one Sign of Rejoicing omitted that was ufually made
for the greatefl Victories obtained in Favour of the
Reman Church.

See here, Chriflian and Proteftant Reader, the true
Portraiture of the Roman Church [ See here the genu-
ine Image of the Roman Pontiff! He rejoices and fo-
lemnly thanks &od for a Maifacre,.. that all Europe heard .
«f with Horror and Indignation! He declares this,
enormous Perfidy and Cruelty was a Blejfing co?zj "erred \
on the Roman See,, and the Butchery of above One:
Hundred Thoufand Perfons of all Sexes and Ages in
cool Bloody and the Plunder of their Houfes, was a
Benefit to the Chriflian World ; and thus fan&ifies a.
Deed as highly meritorious, which no one, that hath any
thing of Humanity, Honour, Companion, Virtue, or
Piety, can read without Trembling and Horror.

Nor hath the Spirit of French Popifh Cruelty abated,
any thing of its Rigour in later Ages. In Oclober,
1685, Lew™ XIV. repealed the Edict of Nantes,made
By his PredecefTor Henry IV. for allowing the Pro-
teftants the free Liberty of their Religion in 1598, and
declared by him to be irrevocable ; and which both
Lewis XIII. and XIV. had themfelves ratified.. And Letter to the
though Lewis XIV. owed his Crown, and owned that£/^- °f
he owed his Crown to his Proteftant Subjects, yet un-f '"j^Hf**
gratefully he forced 150,000 of them out of his King- '
dom, dragoon'd others into Popery (a particular Ac-
count of which you will have at the End of thisTrea-
tife) fent others who refufed to comply, for Slaves,
chained them in his Gallies, took their Children from
them to be educated in. .Monafteries, fhut up others,
that were come to Age in them in perpetual Imprifon-
ment, and fparedno Violence to opprefs and deftroy
them. And the prefent Lenjois XV. is under the Influ-
ence of the fame bloody Counfels, having hanged fe-
veral of the Proteftant Minifters, and fined, dragooned^
imprifoned, and otherwife cruelly treated many of
thofe unhappy People.

3. The Vaudais, partly fubjeel: to France, partly to the
Dukes of Savoy, felt alfo the EfFedls of Popifh Cnir
$hy. In 1 546, Meynier put himfelf at the Head of

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the French Troops in Provence, and deftroyed above
3000 of thofe Proteftants. In 1686 the Duke of Sa-
Biff. of the <voy publiihed an Edict againft them, dated Jan. 31,
*feg°t' tfibehy which he prohibited them, for the future, from all
»m ^5wiv"farther Exercife <* thcir Religion,, and from holding
to the buke ' any Affemblies in any Place for that Purpofe, upon
•fSav. 1690. any Pretext whatsoever, under Pain of their Lives, and
ConhTcation of their Goods ; ordered all their Chur-
ches to be rafed to the Ground, all their Minifters and.
Schoolmafters to depart his Territories upon Pain of
Death, the Children of the Protectants to be brought
up by Popifh Schoolmafters, and when born, to be
baptized by Popifh Priefts, and their Fathers and Mo-
thers to bring them to their Churches for this Purpofe^
under Pain of being fent, their Fathers five Years to
the GaJlies, and their Mothers of being whipped.
And as to all foreign Proteftants that had fettled a-
mongft them, he obliged them to depart, within a
Fortnight after the Publication of this Edic~t, out of his
Territories, under the fame Penalty of Death, and Con-
fifcation of their EfFecls. The Duke took care to exe-
cute this bloody Edicl, and went in Perfon with his
Army, the Pope's Ambaflador being with him, and
furprifed thofe poor People, before they could affem-
ble for their own Security, and killed and took above
12000 of them f fo that a few only efcaped to the.
Mountains,
Stctendorfdt ^ *n Germany, the Proteftants were oppreffed and
Lutheran, harraffedby innumerable Severities,under the Influence-
/V38. §14. 0f the Popes and Roman Clergy. Soon after Luther
appeared againft the Church of Rome, the Emperor
Charles V, by the Pope's Inftigation, publiihed May
z6, 1 521,, an Edict at Worms, by which he profcribed
Id p 24.0. Luther, and all his Accomplices and Protectors, charge-
$ 139. ' ing aftd commanding all People to feize and apprehend
him, and bring him to condign Puniihment, as an ob-
durate Heretick ; declaring all who mould tranfgrefs*
this Edict as guilty of High-Treafon. The bloody
Id, p, 127. Edict at Spires, by which the Papifts made it unlawful:
$ T4* for any to change their Religion, or embrace Lutheran-

ifm, profcribed theSacramentariam out of the Empire,,

and

againft the Pretender and Popery. i 9

and ordered the Anabaptifls to be punifhed with Death,

being foh nwly protefted againft y Anno 1529, by the

ElecTor of Saxony, and otlier Princes of the Empire,

gave Rife to the Name of Pvoteftants. At Ie*ngth, suidkn. M/&

Anno 1546, the fame Emperor, having entred into a Reformat.

League with Pope Paul III. in which 'twas exprefsly^* 38l»

ftipulated, that the Emperor Jkouldf by Force and

Arms, compel I the Proteftants to embrace the ancient

Religion, and fubmit to the Holy See, declared War

againft the Proteftant Princes, and proscribed and out- Id. p. 389.

lawed the Elector of Saxony, and the Landgrave of

JHeJ/e, and involved Germany in all the Calamities of a

Civil War; being afftfted by the Troops of the Pope

himfelf, whofe Brother Alexander Farnefe, upon his Id. p. 395*

Departure out of Italy with thofe Forces, faid : That

be would make fuch a Slaughter in Germany, that his

Horfe might fivim in the Lutherans Blood.

In the Courfe of this religious War the Cities of the
Proteftants were many of them taken and plundered,
innumerable People deftroyed, and at length the Elec-
tor of Saxony taken Prifoner, and condemned to death ; Id. 417,42s*
and forced to renounce the Electoral Dignity both for
himfelf and Children, and confent to the ConhTcation
of all his Goods and Chattels, and to be a Prifoner for Id. p. 430.
the future, in order to reaeem his Life. The Land-
grave of HtJ/e was alfo forced to furrender his Perfon
and Territories into the Emperor's Hands, condemned
to an exorbitant Fine, and kept Prifoner contrary to^« P* 433*
the Articles of his Surrender, and the fafe Conduct
that was granted him. After this, Anne 1550, he Id. p. 49^
publifhed the moft cruel Decree againft all the Luther-
rf;/j-and Cal'vinijls, giving them up to the Fury of the
Inquifitcrs, and ordering them to be deftroyed ; the
Men by the Sword, the Women by being buried alive
if they forfook their Error ; if not, by being burnt; in
Confequence of which, great Cruelties were every where
ufed towards the Proteftants, wherever the Fopifh.
Power and Influence could prevail. It would fill a Vo-
lume to give a particular Account of the feveral Per-
fons burnt and otherwife deftroyed for embracing the
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5. The Lo*w -Countries alfo felt in a dreadfal Manned
theEffe&s of Popifh Cruelty and Fury. In 1529 arfe-

Brandt. Hifi. vere Placard was published at Bruffels againft Lutheran-
Reform, v.i.ifm, whereby all who had in their Cnflody any pro-
?• 57* hibited Books, which were forbidden by former Pla-

cards to be kept, were condemned to death, without
Id* p. 59. Pardon 6r Reprieve. In 1 53 1 another Edict appeared
againft them, by which 'twas ordained, that no one
from thence forwards fhould prefume to write or print,
or caufe ta be written or printed, any new Book upon
any Subject what&ever, without Licenfe, on Pain of
being publickly whipped on a Scaffold, and marked
with a red-hot Iron, or having an Eye put out, or *a
Hand cut off, at the Direction of the Judge, who was
to fee the Sentence executed without Delay or Mercy..
.la Confequence of thefe anckother Edicts many were
Id. p. 60. burnt to death, and particularly at Limlurg an whole
Family were extinguiihed ; the Father and Mother,
their two Daughters and their Hufbands being burnt
Id* p. 80. at one Stake. At Lowvain two Women were buried
alive, at Doavay two others deftroyed in a Pit ; at Bois
le Due two Men and three Women maflacred y in Hol-
land' fome Women juft delivered of their Children,,
others big with Child and near their Time, were ei-
ld. p. 82. ther burnt or drowned ; at Rotterdam a whole AfTembly
were almoft deftroyed ; all the Men they could appre-
hend,, beheaded, and all the Women thrown into a
Id*, p. 87, Boat, thruft under the Ice, and drowned ; at Mons a.
poor Woman was laid alive in a Coffin, and ftampt
upon by the Hangman till me burft ; all of them for
their Religion. In a word, above 50,000 Perfons were
deftroyed by Fire, Sword, and other Methods of Cru-
elty, by the fevere Edicts of the Emperor Charles V..
alone; and his Son Philip renewed all his Father's Pla-
cards againft Herefy, and render'd them perpetual,
which revived the Spirit of Perfecution, to the De-
ftruction of innumerable People.

6. In Spain, Portugal, and Italy, the Inquifition is in
full Force, and ordainedjnerely for the Extirpation of
Herefy, i. e. every thing contrary to the Doctrine and
Practices of the Church of Rome; in which they make

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:ttfe of the moil dreadful and bloody Tortures to force
Pcrfons to confefs, and burn them, without Regard to
Age, Sex, or Condition. Once or oftner every Year
they now celebrate what they call an Auto de Fe, whea
they carry their Prifoners in dreadful .Proceflion, in
the molt publick Manner, to the Place of Execution,
•often roail them to death in lingering Fires,, making
them feel the mofl enraged and exquifite Tortures, and
all this they tell them as a Prelude to the eternal Dam-
nation and Flames of Hell.

The Reflections that naturally follow from this Ac-
count, are thefe:

1 . That as the Canons and Decrees of the Popes
are held to be as facred as thofe of the infpired Apo-
files themfelves,, and are to be obferved without Con-
tradiction, though they prove the eternal Damnation
of many ; and as the Church of Rome is declared to be
the Mother of the Faith: So every Departure from
and Oppofition to thefe Canons and lier Decifions, is
in her Judgment unqueftionable Herefy.

2. That .all Proteflants, without Exception, whe
feparate from the Church of Rome, proteft againft her
tyrannical Impofitions, and refufe Obedience to her;
are, in her Account, guilty of Herefy.

3. That as guilty of Herefy, we are by her judi-
cial Sentence put under the greater Excommunication ,
J. e. not only deprived of all divine Services^ but fe-
parated from Chrift, cut off from the Body of the
Faithful, and delivered over te be punifhed eternally
jvith the Devil and his Angels.

4. That our excellent King, our Royal Family, all
our Proteftant Nobility, all our Bifhops and Clergy,

are not only excommunicated, but as tvcrfe Offender si '• Detret,
than others, and as dejiroying thofe committed to their Go- ' $* *'

:*vernment and Care, are ipfo faclo deprived of all their "
Power, Dignities., Titles, and Offices, condemned to
be burnt as Relapfes by the fecular Arm, and even in
X^fe they fhould abjure their Herefy, have nothing to
.-expect but to be thruft into perpetual Imprifonment,
^here to live on the Bread and Water of Affliction.

5. Tha{ 'tis no $m> ty the Popifh Canon Law, to

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kill Hereticks, or rather highly meritorious, as^tis
for the Exaltation of the Catholick Faith and Church.

6. That Hereticks are to-be exterminated, by the
Doctrine of the Church of Rome, not only by Form
of Law, and by the fecular Power ; but by Periidy,
Airailinations, Maffacres in cold Blood, Midnight
Murthcrs, and every Kind of Treachery and Violence $
and that all thefe Villainies are Bleflings conferred on
.the See -oiJRom^ to be celebrated with folemn Thanks-
givings to God, and to be triumphed in as the moil
.glorious Victories.

7. That the Church of Rome openly encourages and
inclines the moil execrable Perjuries, Breach of Faith,
and Falfhood to the molt fclemn Promifes ; decreeing,
.that no Oaths or Promifes, or Faith, ape to be kept
with Hereticks.

8. That as Hereticks, all .our Lands, Moneys,
Eftates, Goods and Chattels, are abfolutely forfeited,
<and that 'tis lawful, for all that can, to feize, rob, plun-
der, burn and deftroy., every thing without Exception,
*hat belo^iojg,^ ^ f . , •

9. That authele TLaws of the Papifts, that abaxi
don and condemn us to this dreadful Deftru&ion, ar
now in full Vigour, and abfolutely unrepealed, and
declared by a perpetual Decree to be irrevocable.

10. That the Spirit of Popery is a falfe, perfidious,
bloody, mercilefs, implacable, unrelenting one ; that
extinguifhes all Charity, that fteels the Hearts of Men
againft all Sentiments of Companion and Mercy, and
deilroys even Humanity itfelf ; is abfolutely inconfift-
ent with the Rights and Safety of Government, and
with the Liberties, Peace and Happinefs of civil So-
ciety.

1 1 . That Popery is a falfe, accurfed, devilifh Re-
ligion, defhruciive of the Law of Nature, and irre-
concileable with all juft Sentiments of the moral Per-
fections of God; dire&ly contrary to the Spirit of;
ChrifHanity, "the Charadteriftick of which is Chart 7y,
and which infpires with that Wifdom which is pure,
peaceable , gentle, and eafy to be intreated; which, by>
killing the Bodies of Men, and fending their Souls

profefiedly,

againfi the Pretender and Popery.

profeffedly, and ntiitb declared Purpofe, to Hell and
the Devil, defeats the great Intention of Chrift's com-
ing into the World, which was not to defiroy Mens
Lives but tofwve them, and redeem their Souls from
the Wrath of God, and the Condemnation of the
Life to come ; and in which therefore it is impoflible
that any Man can be faved, who is potfefled with
that faithlefs, bloody, perfecting Difpofition which it
excites and encourages, and entertJ into thofe perfidious,
mercilefs, wicked, and unnatural Practices which it
fandlifies and recommends, for its own Propagation
and Support.

12. That 'tis abfolutely impoflible, that any Popiih
Prince can give Security to a Proteftant People, that
he will preferve their Religion, Liberties or Lives ; be-
caufe he is bound, under Penalty of Excommunication-,
heing burnt as an Heretick, or perpetual Imprifon-
jnent, and even eternal Damnation itfelf, to abolifh
their Religion, to extirpate their Liberties, and utterly
to deftroy them without abfolute Reconciliation to the
Church of Rome. And, finally,

13. That it muft be the HekJ^^^^M^^^^^
nefs, and even an InfatuatiohdB

^Pl to permit the PretendertO^^WIr^^^rown
ever to fettle amongft us, or reign over us ,• either by
Conqueft on his Part, or Invitation on ours y hecauie
he can be bound by no Oaths or Promifes, Declara-
tions or Ailurances, ever fo ftrong or repeated, that
he may feem either willing to make himfelf, or we
may force from him ; for he hath a Difpenfation to
break them, and is abfolutely obliged to it, and muft
keep no Faith with Hereticks, If God fhould perthit
him to come amongft us, he comes not only inflamed;
With Refentment for his long Baniflimeht, ' and Exclu-
fion from thefe Kingdoms, but heated with the San-
guinary Difpofition of his Church, as an irreconcikw
able Enemy to our Religion and Laws, with an unalter-
able Refolution to extirpate and deftroy them, and bring
us back again under the Yoak of Rome, or to ftain and
drench thefe Lands with our Blood, if werefufe it.

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24 Great- Britain9 s Memorial,

If you bring him in, Fellow-Britons andProteftarri3r
you open the Door to Swarms of Italian, French, and
Spanijb Locufts, Prieits of every Tribe and Order;
and with them to Aflaflinations, MafTacres, Racks,
Gibbets, Stakes, Murthers, Furies, Death and Dam-
nation ; Methods of Converfion thefe, fan&ined by
the Roman Church, and every wher^e pra&ifed to this
Day, where her Authority and Power prevail. Coun-
trymen, remember thefe Things, and by the Love of
God, for the Sake of Jefus, by your Regard to your
Perfons, Eitates, your Wives and Children, by your
Concern for Liberty and the- Church of England, by
your Fidelity to your King, and your CompafTion for
your Country : Jn a word, by every thing that is va-
luable to you as Men, Chriftians, Protectants, Free-
jnen and Britons, arife as one Man in Defence of your'
Prince, your Conflitution, and your Church, and
bravely hazard Life by defending them, rather than
tamely and furely facri/ice them by yielding to the
Pretender, and introduing with him a Religion whofe
tender Mercies are Cruelty: The Confideration of
which made Luther fay of it, what every Man that
JHfl ■briftianity mull agree with him

Second. FJi,u^^f^you^Ta7noother Reafon to go out of the ^H)
LutbAib, 2. man Church, this alone <would fujfce, that you fee and
*' ' hear, ho^vo, contrary to the La^vo of God, they Jhed innocent
Blood* This fngle Circumfiance Jhall, God rivillingr
ewer f par ate me from the Papacy, And if I <was no*w
fubjeel to it, and could blame nothing, in any of their
Doclrines ; yet for this Crime of Cruelty only, I ivould
ftyfrom their Communion, as from A Den of Thieves
and Devils.

The Method of Dragooning the French Trot eft ants,
after the Revocation of the Edid of Nantes, under
Lewis XIV. taken from a French Piece tranflated
Anno 1686.

1^ HE Troopers, Soldiers, and Dragoons went into*
the Proteftants Houfes, where they marred and
defaced their Houfhold- Stuff, broke their Looking-

gla(Tes>

againft the Pretender and Popery.

gfa.(Tes> and other Utenfils <md Ornaments, let their
Wine run about their Cellars, and threw about
their Corn and fpoiled it. And as to thofe Things
which they could not deftroy in this Manner, fuch as
Furniture of Beds, Hangings, Tapeftry, Linnen,
Wearing- Apparel, Plate, and Things of the like Na-
ture, they carried them to the Market- Place, and fold
them to the Jefuits, and other Roman Catholicks. By
thefe Means the Proteftants in Montauban alone were,
in four or five Days, ftripped of above a Million of
Money. But this was not the worft.

They turned the Dining-Rooms of Gentlemen into
Stables for their Horfes, and ufed the Proteftants, in
Peribn, with the greateft Indignity and Cruelty. Some-
times the Soldiers took the Perfons of the Houfes
where they quartered, and walked them up and down
in a Room, tickling and toiTmg them like a Ball from
one to anqthcr, without giving them the lead Inter-
.mhTion, for three Day s and N ights together, without
Meat, Drink, or Sleep. And when they were
-wearied almoft to death by thefe Means, they laid
*hem on a Bed, continuing jjg jftcll^and .torment
•them as before, and when they thougkt^hem fome-
•what recovered, made them rife; and walk about
afrefh, fometimes tickling, and other times laming
them with Rods to keep them from ileeping. And
when one Party of their Tormentors were weary, they
were relieved by another, who practifed the fame Vio-
lences, infomuch that many of the poor Proteftants
-went diflracled, and others became ftupidand mopifh,
and remained fo.

At NfgrepliJJ'e, a Town near Montauban, they
hung up Ifaac Fa<vin9 a Proteftant Citizen of that
Place, by his Arm -pits, and tormented him an whole
•Night by pinching and tearing off his Flefh with
Pinchers. Th«?y made a great Fire round a Boy
of about ten Years old, who, with Hands and
JByes lift up to Heaven, cried out, My God, help me.
And when they law the Lad reiblved to die rather
•than renounce his Religion, they fnatched him from the
.Fire, jult as he was on the Point of being burnt.

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Great-Briiairfs Memorial^

■ In feveral Places the Soldiers applied red-hot Irons
to the Hands and Feet of Men, and the Breafts of
Women. At Nantes they hung up feveral Women
and Maids by their Feet, and others by their Arm-
pits? and thus expofed them to publick View ftark-
naked. They bound Mothers that gave fuck unto
Polls, and let their fucking Infants lie languifhing in
their Sight, without letting them be fuckled for fe-
veral Days, but leaving them crying, mourning, gafp-
ing for Life, and dying for Thiril and Hunger. They
took Children of four or five Years old, and when
they had kept them fo long, as that they were dying
for Hunger, brought them to their Parents, and with
horrible Imprecations and Oaths affured them, that
except they wo aid turn, they mould fee their Children
die in their Prefence. Some they bound before a
great Fire, and being half roafled let them go. Some,
both Men and Women, they beat in the mod outrage*
ous Manner, and others they tormented Night and
Day, dragging, beating and tolling them about with-
out IntermifTion ; which was the ordinary Method of
Converfion p^ajStifed jpy thefe military Afofiles of the
Romijh Church. In the mean time they were pro-
hibited from departing the Kingdom (a Cruelty never
praclifed by Nero or Dioclejian) upon Pain of Confifca-
tion of Effects, the Gallies, the Lafh„ and per-
petual Imprifonment ; infomuch that the Prifons of the
Sea- Port Towns were crammed with Men, Women,
Boys, and Girls, who endeavoured to fave themfelves
by Flight from their dreadful Perfecution. With thefe
Scenes of Defolation and Horror, the Popifh Clergy
feaited their Eyes,- and made only a Matter of Laugh-
ter and Sport of them. And though my Heart akes
whilft I am relating thefe Barbarities, yet .for a per-
petual Memorial of the infernal Cruelty praclifed by
thefe Monfters, I beg the Reader's Patience to lay be •
fore him two other Inftances, which, if he Hath an
Heart like mine, he will not be able to read, without
watering thefe Sheets with his Tears.

The rtrft is of a young Woman, who being brought
before the Council, upon rcfuiing to abjure her Re-
ligion,

againfi the Pretender and Popery.

Egion, was ordered to Prifon. There they fhavect
her Head, finged off the Hair of her Privities, and
having ltripped her ftark naked, "led her through the
Streets of die City, where many a Blow was given
her, and Stones flung at heri Then they fet her up to
the Neck in a Tub full of Water, where after flie had
been for a while, they took her out, and put on her
a Shift dipt in Wine, which as it dried, and ftuck to
her fore and bruifed Body, they matched off again,
and then had another ready dipt in Wine to clap on
her. This they repeated fix times, hereby making
her Body exceeding raw and fore. When all thefe
Cruelties could not make her Conftancy, they fatten-
ed her by her Feet to a kind of Gibbet, and let her
hang in that Pofture with her Head downward till fhe
expired.

The other is of a Man, in whofe Houfe were
quartered fome of thefe Miffionary Dragoons. One"
Day, having drank plentifully of Wine, and broken
their Glaffes at every Health, they filled the Floor
of the Room where they were drinking with the
Fragments, and by often walking over them, and
treading on them, reduced them to fmaller Pieces.
On this, in the Infolence of their Mirth, they refolved
on a Dance, and told their Proteftant Hoft, that he
mull be one of their Company, but withal, that he
muft dance quite barefoot, to move more nimbly.
And thus barefoot, they forced him to dance upon
the fharp Points of Glafs. And when they had kept
him thus dancing as long as he was able to Hand, they
laid him on a Bed, and after fome time, that he might
come to himfelf, ftrlpt him flark naked, and rolled
his Body from one End of the Room to the other,
till his Skin was ftuck full of the Fragments of Glaft.

Then they laid him on his Bed, and fent for a
Chirurgeon to cut out the Pieces of Glafs from his
Body, which put him to the moft exquifite and hor-
rible Pains.

Thefe, Fellow Pfoteftants, were the Mefhods ufed
by the mojl Qhriftian Kings J?pofl-jlick Dragoons, to
Convert his heretical Subjects to the Roman Catholick

Faith !

Great-Britain9 s Memorial, &c.

Faith ! Thefe, and many otfyer of the like Nature, were
the Torments to which Lewis XIV. delivered them
over,' to bring them to his own Church ! And as Popery-
is unchangeably the fame, thefe are the Tortures pre-
pared for you, if ever that Religion fhould be per-
mitted to become fettled amongft yon. And as the
Attempt is now openly made to introduce it, awaltej
arife, arm yourfelves^ Britons' y in Defence of your Pro-
tectant King, his Family, your Religion, and your
Liberties. Your Souls, your Bodies, yourEllates, your
Wives and Children, all demand your immediate Ware.
Scotland is. almoft fubdued by Poptfh Rebels, France
is meditating a ftrong Invafion on your Coails, and
hath actually begun the Embarkation of her Troops.
Spanijh Rods and Whips are preparing to fcourgeyou.
7 be Hell-hounds of Rcme are juft ready to feize and
worry you. Seize the prefent Moment, before the
dreadful Deiixuction overwhelms you,' in order to pre-
vent it. Let every Heart and Hand unite. The
Ruin that threatens you is univerfal. The Toil you
are called to is great but glorious. Better die in De-
fence of our Country, than fit down inglorioufly un-
der the heavy Chains of Popiih Tyranny. Strengthen
yourfelves therefore, and be of good Courage, and
behave valiantly for your People, for your King, and
for the Cities of your God ; and may he who is the,
great Difpofer of Victory, and holds the Fates of
Nations in his Hand, crown you with Succefs, aiid
.make you triumph over \ 11 j our Enemies.

FINIS,